SWORD & DRAGON -1959 USSR SOVIET FANTASY FAIRY TALE MOVIE FILM POSTER by PTUSHKO

  

Original (French) film title on the poster. LE GEANT DE LA STEPPE. THE SWORD AND THE DRAGON. IN: 22 ¾ x 31½ = CM: 58 x 80.

Original official Soviet movie poster for the film: " ILYA MUROMETS ". Is the first Soviet widescreen feature film by Alexander Ptushko based on Russian folk epics about the hero Ilya Muromets. It was released on the screens of the USSR on November 16, 1956. The shooting of the fairy tale film, in addition to the pavilions of Mosfilm, took place in the Crimea and on the banks of the Kama reservoir near the villages of Lunezhki and Konstantinovka, where the native village of the hero Karacharovo was built. The scenery of Ancient Kyiv with city buildings and a fortress wall was erected on the Tea Hill in Yalta, and Dnieper scenes were filmed on the banks of the newly built Simferopol reservoir. For an episode of the invasion of the Tugar horde, several tens of thousands of horsemen and foot "warriors" would have been required - an impossible task from the point of view of the film's economics and organization.

Ptushko would not have been an outstanding director if he had not involved young and ambitious cameramen B. Svidetelev, who are able to combine several methods of combined shooting into one in order to achieve the desired result. Ilya is a cripple without the use of his legs. When he aids some weary travellers, they surprise him by giving him a potion that restores his legs. He immediately becomes powerful and sets off to prove himself to his King.

Doing so, he fights the evil Tugars, a wind demon that looks like a cross between a goblin and The Noid, a zeppelin-like ambassador, and the evil Tugars. Ilya gets framed for a crime he didn't commit, then is freed, then finally dispatches the Tugars and their dragon. Jean Mascii is a French painter, poster artist and illustrator. He was born on July 5, 1926, in Mirandola, Italy and died on November 16, 2003, in Paris. He designed his first poster in 1947. He also created book covers for publishers and book covers for the music hall. In his career, he designed early 1500 cinema posters and more than 250 book covers and visual for advertising and press he has drawn. Jean Mascii was one of the most productive creator of movie posters in France along with Rene Ferracci, Clement Hurel, Michel Landi, and Boris Grinsson.

In 1951, he created poster for Leather nose. In 1953, he produced the movie poster for Rue de l'Estrapade by Jacques Becker. He also drew the movie poster for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Richard Fleischer, and in the same year, 1955, the Napoleon by Sacha Guiltry. A year after, he created the film poster for The Couturier of These Ladies by Jean Boyer, Bob the High Roller by Jean-Pierre Melville, Giant by George Stevens, and The Fury Living by Nicholas Ray. In 1957, he made movie poster for the Bridge of the River Kwai by David Lean and the Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini.

And in 1959, he created the poster for Rio Bravo by Howard Hawks. In 1987, he made the movie poster for Masters of the Universe by Gary Goddard.

He was active in making poster from 1950 to 1980s. Original title on the poster. Mention details and specifications that you believe are relevant to your buyers. CHANTSEV ALEXANDER VASILIEVCIH (1949 - 2002). Alexander Chantsev was born in 1949 in the city of Torun, Poland. In 1973 he graduated from the Moscow Higher School of Industrial Art (formerly the Stroganov School) with a degree in Artistic Ceramics.

The second prize of the International Olympic Poster Competition in 1980 gave impetus to the work in the poster genre. Several years of fruitful work in the circus poster followed, and during this period the individual style and technique of Alexander Chantsev gradually developed.

In 1989 he was admitted to the Union of Artists. The film posters brought the artist international fame. Solo exhibitions of film posters by Alexander Chantsev took place in Rome in 1991 (together with Yuri Boxer) as part of the exhibition of Soviet film posters, which was held in the largest exhibition hall of the city - Palazzo delle Esposizioni. In 2001, an exhibition of movie posters by Chantsev, Boxer and Maistrovsky was held in the city of Tavira (Portugal).

Alexander Chantsev took part in the largest exhibitions of Soviet and Russian posters, regularly participated in international biennials in Warsaw, Lahti, Colorado, Brno, took part in a poster exhibition in the Louvre (1989), the International Poster Festival in Chaumont, France (1991), in the exhibitions " Russian social poster "in the USA (1991-92), Perestroika. Glasnost in Japan (1991-92), was awarded with diplomas of various competitions, a diploma of the finalist of the European competition of advertising EPICA in Paris (1992).

Exhibitions of posters, in which Alexander Chantsev participated, have traveled almost all over the world, the originals and prints have ended up in the most famous galleries and in private collections in the USA, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and the Czech Republic. However, the rise of poster art, which took place thanks to perestroika and the resulting freedom, gradually ended, and interest in the poster was largely lost. New times have come when the emerging market relations have made completely different demands on artists. I had to master new genres - advertising booklets, annual reports, logos, corporate styles - and face a different customer. For the last seven years of his life, Alexander Chantsev was engaged in the design of exhibition stands, working as the art director of the Expoline company.

It was a new business, and gradually the festive atmosphere of the exhibitions captured Alexander Chantsev entirely. Possessing tremendous efficiency and real professionalism, he managed to create many interesting exhibition stands for such companies as Lucent Technologies, Avaya, Alcatel, A&T Trade, KRKA, Shreya, Orimi Trade, Sunway, Mobile TeleSystems. Nevertheless, in Russia and the world, Alexander Chantsev is known primarily as a brilliant poster artist who belonged to a remarkable generation of artists. And the soft, good-natured humor of his circus posters, the philosophical metaphors of the movie posters, the sharp, satirical images of political posters will forever remain in our memory. YALTA HOTEL YALTA INTOURIST WELCOMES YOU!

Come to us in the USSR! - the meaning of the posters issued by the firm "Intourist" was advertising of tourist trips for foreign citizens beyond the "Iron Curtain".

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